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  • December 2013

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  • Look down

    • 26 December 2013

    Emily Black looks at recent projects in which the inspired use of flooring by designers has greatly enhanced the overall scheme

    The best new flooring products

    • 23 December 2013

    Emily Martin looks at new flooring products, including a conservation-minded floor tile that contains remnants of old fishing nets

    Dexter Moren - 10 things I’ve learned about design

    • 20 December 2013

    In the first of a new feature, hotel design specialist Dexter Moren, of Dexter Moren Associates, tells Pamela Buxton the most important things he’s learned in his 20 years in the design business

    Got it covered!

    • 20 December 2013

    We asked design practices Woods Bagot and Marta Nowicka & Co to respond to a brief detailing a temporary show space for fictitious start-up company Exetera, selling three exciting but boring-looking 3D printers. Flooring was to be used to delineate space and focus the product

    Mass Capital: Shumi Bose on OMA's De Rotterdam

    • 19 December 2013

    Sixteen years on from its conception, and after a stop-start history coloured by global crisis and loss of confidence, November 2013 saw the completion of the gargantuan De Rotterdam — The Rotterdam — the latest contribution to the city from its most prodigious architectural offspring, OMA

    Designers get Plasticine for Christmas

    • 18 December 2013

    Design contractor Syntec sent some of the UK's most creative design and architecture studios some Plasticine to play with: here are the results

    FAT to disband after 23 years

    • 16 December 2013

    After 23 years of practice, on December 16 2014, the influential and iconoclastic London-based office of FAT (Fashion, Architecture, Taste) has announced its decision to disband in 2014. In Blueprint’s 30th anniversary issue (Sept/Oct 2013) we revisited the first time FAT appeared on our cover, as the (very) young turks of 1997. We republish founding partner Sam Jacobs’ reflections on FAT — and architecture — then and now.

    Wouter Vanstiphout: how Rotterdam lost its architectural soul

    • 16 December 2013

    Blueprint invited architectural historian and professor of design Wouter Vanstiphout to comment on (De) Rotterdam — the city and the building — currently gracing the cover of our seriously jam-packed current issue (number 331). His eloquent lament for a city that once vibrated with an untamed, gritty energy, is published here in full.

    Interview: graphic design legend Peter Saville talks to Liz Farrelly

    • 13 December 2013

    Graphic designer doyen Peter Saville was presented with the London Design Festival's Medal, the first creative to receive it. Blueprint talks to the man about his career and ethos and also asks some of his contemporaries, colleagues and acolytes to choose their favourite piece of Saville's work

    New urban quarter unveiled for historic London site

    • 13 December 2013

    Sheppard Robson, Maccreanor Lavington and Piercy&Company have revealed detailed facade designs for buildings located within Barts Square – a new urban, 3.2 acre mixed-use quarter in the City of London’s Smithfield Conservation Area.